Thumbless Sue Kraft Inc. Over Mac & Cheese Boxes

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Mar 20, 2014 at 12:40 PM

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (CAP) - America's thumbless population has joined together in a class action suit against Kraft Foods Inc., claiming that the boxes for the company's popular Mac & Cheese product are discriminatory."Life without thumbs is difficult enough without having to forgo the delicious cheesiness of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese," said Cary Bernstein of the firm Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky, who is representing America's thumbless. "But apparently the powers that be at Kraft only care about the thumbed."Opening a box of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese requires the insertion of a thumb, either left or right, into a perforated tab, at which point the top panel of the box can be removed."Sometimes I spend hours just staring at that tab, thinking of the cheesiness," said Doreen Ball, a thumbless woman from Freehold, N.J. taking part in the suit.[Read the rest at CAP News.]

NORTHFIELD, Ill. (CAP) - America's thumbless population has joined together in a class action suit against Kraft Foods Inc., claiming that the boxes for the company's popular Mac & Cheese product are discriminatory.
"Life without thumbs is difficult enough without having to forgo the delicious cheesiness of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese," said Cary Bernstein of the firm Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky, who is representing America's thumbless. "But apparently the powers that be at Kraft only care about the thumbed."
Opening a box of Kraft Macaroni & Cheese requires the insertion of a thumb, either left or right, into a perforated tab, at which point the top panel of the box can be removed.
"Sometimes I spend hours just staring at that tab, thinking of the cheesiness," said Doreen Ball, a thumbless woman from Freehold, N.J. taking part in the suit.
[Read the rest at CAP News.]

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